W.T. Stead: nonconformist and newspaper prophet
by Brown, Stewart J., (Stewart Jay)
W.T. Stead (1849-1912) was a newspaper editor, author, social reformer, advocate for women's rights, peace campaigner, spiritualist, and one of the best-known public figures in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. W.T. Stead: Nonconformist and Newspaper Prophet provides a compelling religious biography of Stead, offering particular attention to his conception of journalism--in an age of growing mass literacy--as a means to communicate religious truth and morality, and his view of the editor's …
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W.T. Stead (1849-1912) was a newspaper editor, author, social reformer, advocate for women's rights, peace campaigner, spiritualist, and one of the best-known public figures in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. W.T. Stead: Nonconformist and Newspaper Prophet provides a compelling religious biography of Stead, offering particular attention to his conception of journalism--in an age of growing mass literacy--as a means to communicate religious truth and morality, and his view of the editor's desk as a modern pulpit. Leading scholar Stewart J. Brown explores how his Nonconformist conscience and sense of divine calling infused Stead's newspaper crusades--most famously his 'Maiden Tribute' campaign against child prostitution. The biography also examines Stead's growing interest in spiritualism and the occult, as he searched for the evidence of an afterlife that might draw people in a more secular age back to faith. It discusses his imperialism and his belief in the English-speaking peoples of the British Empire and American Republic as God's new chosen people for the spread of civilization; and it highlights how his growing understanding of other faiths and cultures--but more especially his moral revulsion over the South African War of 1899-1902--brought him to question those beliefs. Finally, it assesses the influence of religious faith on his campaigns for world peace and the arbitration of international disputes--back cover.
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- Publication Date:©2019
- Edition:First edition
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2019
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- Description:xi, 226 pages ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0198832532, 9780198832539
- oclc:on1090980671
- LC Classification:PN5123.S7
- Dewey Decimal:941.081092
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